Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

approx. 1774

watercolour and gouache on ivory

oval: 10.30 cm x 8.40 cm

gilt-metal frame

Provenance: Groult Collection, Paris

Exhibition: Academy Saint-Luc, Paris, 1774, no. 211

Literature: Lettre à M. le Marquis de XXX, 1774, pp. 21-22; Fidière 1885, p. 42, Portalis 1901, p.360; Portalis 1902, p.12; Bouchot, 1907, p. 61, repr. p.17; Bouchot, 1910, p. 78; Guiffrey, N.A.A.F. 1915, vol. 9, p.318; Lespinasse 1929, p.119; Ratouis de Limay 1947, p. 100; Schidlof 1964, vol. 1, p. 468; Passez 1973, pp. 60-61; Nimmergut and Wager 1982, p. 95; Otten, Pappe and Schmieglitz-Otten 2000, on reverse of book jacket; Lemoine-Bouchard 2008